The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal

Denne store boka er på den ene siden et studium i kombinasjoner og angrepskunst, med treningsoppgaver og det hele. På den andre siden et verk om sjakkmagikeren Mikhail Tal, eller sjakkens "Messias" i sin tid som Spasskij kaller ham i boka.

Dette er sjakk-kunst på høyeste plan, og samtidig kommer vi mye nærmere både sjakkspilleren og mennesket Mikhail Tal som var verdensmester bare fra 1960 til 61. Det har på en fascinerende måte blitt et fint hovedverk om den store Misha Tal.

INNHOLDSFORTEGNELSEN forteller mye om denne innholdsrike boka:

• About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Prologue – Knowledge? Intuition? Risk? – by Mikhail Tal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
• Reflections on Mikhail T., by Mikhail Botvinnik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter I – Warm-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

• Intermezzo
• The golden rules of at tack 34
• Exercises 36
• Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

• Intermezzo

• Sieghart Dittmann: Comments on a game of chess 89

• Wolfgang Uhlmann: An instructive experience 92
• Hans-Joachim Hecht: Encounters with Tal 97
• Gennady Nesis: Misha never played the star 102
• Evgeny Vasiukov: Tal a magnet for the public 104

Chapter II – Correct Sacrifices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

• Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
• Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
• Intermezzo
• Andrzej Filipowicz: Misha was extremely crafty at the board . . . . . . . . 147
• Rainer Knaak: Misha – a master of analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
• Boris Spassky: Tal was the chess messiah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
• What Karpov values in Tal – In conversation with Alexander Bakh . . . . 155

Chapter III – Speculative Sacrifices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

• Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
• Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
• Intermezzo
• Robert Hübner: In memory of Mikhail Tal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Chapter IV – The Correct Way to Defend against the Magician . . . . . . . . 240

• Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
• Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
• Intermezzo
• Zurab Azmaiparashvili: He hypnotised me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
• Helmut Pfleger: Excessive to the last breath
• Personal impressions of Mikhail Tal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
• Tal played his very own brand of chess
• In conversation with Artur Yusupov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
• This star radiated so much energy that it finally burned out
• In conversation with Vladimir Kramnik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
• Misha lived his life
• In conversation with Engelina Tal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
• Epilogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
• An unbroken love for chess, by Mikhail Tal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
• Appendix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
• Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
• Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
• Index of Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
• Game List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329